Time for sanity on drugs

1:59 PM,
Aug. 30, 2013

Written by

Chris Dixon
OPINION

Of all the topics Carl and I have covered here in our editorial outpost, I'll admit that I find discussions of drug legalization to be the most tedious. That doesn't mean that they are unworthy topics. It's just that I've never understood people's fascination with drugs.

Much of my aversion to the topic comes from my personal experience of having grown up in the anti-drugs frenzy of the 1980s. My earliest recollection on the subject is of a junior high convocation that featured the famed anti-drug speaker David Toma. If you're not familiar with him, you should look him up on the web and read some of ...